Swann's Way Av Marcel Proust

A guide to "Combray", the opening section of Proust's "A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu". It examines the ways in which the complexities of biography, literary transformation and the structural importance of its many themes may be...

<p>Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover¿s jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and...

<p>In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. <br><br>Throughout...

Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, this title portrays in abundant detail the life and times of literary voices of the twentieth century.